On 7/13/2012 9:02 AM, Alexander Konovalov wrote:
so maybe cygstart parses its argument differently dependently whether it starts with file:// or http://?
That's correct. And before you waste too much time on this, you should make sure that you have the latest cygutils package installed. The behavior of cygstart with respect to file:// URLs changed starting with cygutils-1.4.10-1. See
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-03/msg00246.html . Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
